With Cisco’s Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), we are making large joint investments with our channel to drive adoption and customer success. The completion of this intensive, hands-on, multi-week training by WWT is an example of the excitement our partners have and the investment they’re making in ACI. It’s this tight relationship between Cisco and its partners that has ACI outpacing other SDN vendors 2:1 (per Gartner), and this cements WWT to lead that charge. – Soni Jiandani, SVP, Insieme Business Unit, Cisco Systems

WWT Technical Solutions Architect Joe Weber also commented, “This training course is WWT’s initial step toward educating our solutions engineers on the many facets of ACI, and through this education, accelerating deployment time of ACI solutions for our customers.”

Nine engineers, out of 30 applicants, were chosen to be the first participants of the program after extensive interviews with WWT.

About the curriculum

ACI University’s 12-week program offers a deep dive into various software-defined networking topics, providing extensive knowledge share around ACI. The program focused on ACI design, implementation, troubleshooting and automation. Resources internal to WWT as well as external contributed to the curriculum and content of the program, which also included mentored installations at customer sites.

“The investment WWT is making in ACI training is allowing us to really get a hold of this technology in such a way that we can expertly deploy it for our customers and create adoption of ACI in the marketplace,” remarked Joe Ploehn, a WWT Consulting Engineer and recent ACI University graduate.

A team effort

WWT would like to congratulate its inaugural class of ACI University graduates, and give recognition and thanks to all the contributors to the development of ACI University and its trainers for their time and dedication to the program.